As EdLanta continues to focus in on National Family Engagement Month through our advocacy for better educational outcomes for Black children. Please read this op-ed, “With Public Education, We Must Stop Placing Blame and Look in the Mirror!”, written by Kamaria Finch, founder of Harriet Tubman Charter School in Atlanta, Georgia. Our nation is ablaze with political debates surrounding education,…
Tag: Charter School Leaders of Color
We Need More Black Male Educators Running for City Council!
We don’t just need more Black males in the classrooms—we also need them running for public office. Recently inspired by Davion Lewis, local Metro Atlanta educator, running for City Council Ward A in the City of East Point, I decided to do a call to action to fellow Black male educators who want to impact the community outside of the…
We Cannot Reform Prisons without Reforming Education!
Many Metro Atlanta school districts are returning back to school on today. But how many of these schools will actually decrease the number of Black students impacted by bias in policies designed to throw them into the school to prison pipeline? In working to decrease the school to prison pipeline in Georgia over the last 15 years, I can tell…
We Need School Choice to Be the Black Choice in California Too!
Roland Martin has helped make the statement, “there’s more than one way to educate children!”, something that educational policy makers are thinking about more intently. In fact, it’s safe to say that school choice is the Black choice. After all, white children have been afforded the right to a quality education. Black and Brown families need school choice so their…
Alisha Thomas Morgan on Running for Office at 22, the NAACP and Sundays With the Real Housewives
At 23 years old Alisha Thomas Morgan became the first African-American to represent Cobb County in the Georgia House of Representatives. During her 12 years of service, as a legislator and mom, Morgan championed the expansion of school choice options for Georgia parents. In 2015, Morgan became executive director/superintendent of Ivy Preparatory Academies, an all-girls charter network servicing metro Atlanta…